On Mediums and Technical Interaction

Recently, I saw someone trying to use their fingers to move something on their Blackberry screen- after about half a second, he said to his friend “Ah, Im just so used to my iPhone, I keep forgetting the buttons.” I realized that his brief misstep is [...]

Best Facebook Connect Experience Yet

An upcoming game called “Prototype” recently launched their promotional site with facebook connect baked into the experience.

Once you log in, it takes a few moments to log into your account but then pulls in profile data and your photos and begins to integrate them into the game [...]

Hulu Continues Its Takeover Of My Life

When Hulu was first announced, I was hugely critical of the hybrid startup/corporate mashup created by Universal and NBC but I was quickly proven wrong by its great interface and huge library of TV Shows.  The site has done an amazing job of providing great, fresh content [...]

The Week of My Browser War.

This is just a quick reminder that if you are still using Internet Explorer 6, please for the love of God go update to either Firefox or Internet Explorer 7. I have spent my week trying to fix browser compatibility issues on 3 websites I’ve been [...]

The Village Idiot

In case you haven’t seen the recent exchange between TechCrunch and some delusional pseudo-attorney, be sure to check it out and get a hearty laugh for the day.
Basically, some photographer took a picture of Ashton Kutcher and someone linked to it in a comment left on TechCrunch. [...]

The ZunePhone? (a sneak peek!)

This parody of the iPhone has come out amid the long-running rumors that Microsoft is developing a new Zune phone in order to compete with the iPhone. I found it to be hilarious, though I must admit: the Zune has a few really cool features that just [...]

3rd Generation iPod Nano Gets All The Bad Genes

 UPDATE: Today, Apple debuted this next-gen model of the nano which is very similar to the one pictured below.  In addition to the new nano, Apple also released an ‘iPod Classic’, ‘iPod Touch’, as well as slashed the price of the iPhone by $200.  Check it out [...]

Microsoft’s Tafiti Brings Back The Revolution

UPDATE: 1) Embedded video and added citation 2) Added to described feature set (Tree View) -ac
Microsoft has released a beta version of its newest search feature: Tafiti. Essentially, this is a visual search tool built on Microsoft Live Search and Microsoft Silverlight technology: rather than just [...]

The e-President?

According to Mashable, a new poll released by Global Market Insite (GMI) shows astonishing results regarding the impact of social networks on the upcoming presidential election.
17% of respondents said they had looked at a candidate’s profile on some social networking site such as MySpace or Facebook, and [...]

Fight the Man: Facebook Edition

(UPDATE: post edited to include Mashable source citation and category links)
As social networking sites increase in popularity, more and more businesses are striving to maintain worker productivity by simply blocking access to sites such as Facebook and MySpace. This week, an Australian firm released a study [...]